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About TRIS

TRIS (Traffic
and Road Information System) is an automated information distribution system designed to provide traffic reports for provincially maintained highways in the following Regions:

Niagara

Hamilton and Wentworth

Halton

Peel

Toronto

York

Durham

Bancroft

Ontario East

Ottawa

TRIS traffic reports
are available to the motoring public via the Internet, and to subscribers, via
email (primarily radio media). With an increasing demand for traffic information in the Greater Toronto Area and Niagara Peninsula, motorists can receive timely and accurate reports directly from the Internet or in their vehicles through commercial radio. The Ministry's Compass Traffic Operation Centre is the main communications centre for all provincially maintained highways in the GTA. Compass operators enter traffic event information into TRIS which, in turn, generates World Wide Web files and email ready traffic reports. TRIS traffic congestion information is constantly updated from the Highway 401 and QEW Mississauga Compass Advanced Traffic Management Systems for predefined sections along Highway 401 and the QEW in the Toronto and Peel Regions.

TRIS World Wide Web service report types

Congestion Information:

Current congestion management information (updated every five minutes) for pre-defined sections along Highway 401 and QEW (currently Metro Toronto and Peel regions only)

Scheduled Traffic Events:

Any event that is known in advance, including maintenance, construction, special events, etc. per region.

Emergency Traffic Events:

Any event (Unscheduled or Scheduled) that has been declared to have a severe impact on traffic flow. This event type is unique in that when declared, it automatically emails the traffic report to all subscribers immediately.

Highway Bulletins:

News releases primarily regarding long-term construction closures on provincially maintained highways, but can be about anything the Ministry wishes to broadcast to TRIS subscribers.

TRIS media
email service subscription types

Fixed Schedule:

The subscriber specifies in advance when they would like to receive traffic reports. This can be set up for Unscheduled and/or Scheduled Events.

Event Driven:

Whenever an event is added, updated, or terminated, the subscriber will receive a traffic report. Subscribers can choose the 'window' of time in which they want to receive emails (for example, only during rush hours).

Emergency Events:

The subscriber will only receive Emergency Events that have severe impact on traffic.

Bulletins:

The subscribers will only receive news releases regarding long term construction closures on provincial highways.